Gifts books of his poetry to Herbert
Arranging to visit Cambridge and having a net at Fenners. News of Dennis Silk. BBC to visit to record a programme of Sassoon reading a selection of his poetry and prose.
Broadcast by 'HMT'. Leavis in good form and working well, Death of Anna Gosse, Ronald Knox recovering from a major operation. Reviews of Sequences are superficial and inadequate.
Arrangements for visiting Cambridge. News of Dennis Silk and Rolf Barber.
Had a cricket net - thought form quite decent. Dennis Silk now a shooting man. Geoffrey Keynes resigned his trusteeship of the Rupert Brooke papers [?]
Opinion of the Suez crisis. Visits from Dennis Silk, M Melhuish, Robin Marlar and S C Roberts. Review of Sequences in the Sunday Times. Repairs to fabric of Heytesbury House.
Saw a Ted Dexter century at Fenners, Thought it pathetic that some varsity cricketers were studying while playing. Had nets with Dennis and was batting well. H M Tomlinson suffered two strokes an recuperating at Abbotsbury.. Robert Frost's reading at Cambridge was wonderful.
Visit to Cambridge for George Sassoon's birthday. faith through prayer. The authority of the Catholic church. Reading the sermons of Ronald Knox.Dennis Silk to tour [East] Africa with the MCC.
Note: Thomas Tyrwhitt's plans, elevations and sections were published in _The Builder; in addition to the originals (with the Clerk of Works), Clare College was supplied with a set of offprints: some of the latter hang in the Bursar's office, 1993; others are Acc 1986/ 6: OS 5/ 8/ 10 and Acc 1986/ 6: Maps 2